My personal advice at this early stage (college to pay for, second season coming up, first IMAC venture, quarter scale model) would be to not torture yourself with getting the ultimate in every component. It's nice to have JR servos, top of the line transmitter, 40% model, etc., but you can do a lot of good flying with Hitec servos. Digital is nice, digital coreless is nicer, programer is nice (once you learn how it works... takes some patient study). If you had cash to burn you could splurge on the best of everything, but without meaning to be insulting about it, learning pilot skills, practice skills, trimming & mixing skills, a whole lot of pilot-centered stuff is more important for the next couple of seasons, more so than the difference between Hitec and JR/Futaba. There are plenty of IMAC flyers driving home with a plaque to hang on the wall, won fair & square with their Hitec servos. When your pilot skills are such that you can fly better than your servos, that will be time enough to get the JR's. I've used JR Sport 126's all around on quarter scale and larger and been happy with my flying. Not the best, but good value and more than adequate for a po' boy to practice with.